> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Providers

> Providers are the third-party services Agentity connects to in order to provision email, phone, and virtual card channels for your agents.

A provider is a third-party service that Agentity calls on your behalf to provision an identity channel. You supply your own API key for each provider you want to use. Agentity uses that key when you request the corresponding channel during identity creation.

## Supported providers

| Provider                            | Channel      | Notes                              |
| ----------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------------- |
| [AgentMail](https://agentmail.to)   | Email        | Provides email inbox provisioning  |
| [AgentPhone](https://agentphone.ai) | Phone/SMS    | Provides phone number provisioning |
| [Privacy.com](https://privacy.com)  | Virtual card | Provides virtual cards             |

## How provider keys work

Setting a provider API key does **not** provision anything. It gives Agentity permission to call that provider on your behalf when you later create an identity that includes the corresponding asset.

When you request an asset — for example, by passing `email` to `create_agent_identity` — Agentity fetches your stored key for AgentMail, decrypts it, and uses it to create the inbox. If no key is stored for that provider, the request fails.

<Note>
  Provider API keys are encrypted before storage. Agentity never stores them in plaintext.
</Note>

## Managing provider keys

You can manage your provider keys using the dashboard.